To this day, it feels like The Monkees have never received their due. Granted, they were manufactured in the beginning. But ...
The Monkees had a hit song in the 1980s — and they were far from the only classic rock act from their generation to do so. The track in question could have been a catastrophe. Here’s how the ...
This is a man who has released literal nursery rhymes during his prolific solo career and who made a surprise appearance on the UK charts in 1974 with a fairly straight-ahead cover of The Monkees’ ...
The prog rock world has no lack of virtuosity, with its guitar heroes, keyboard wizards, and bass and drum monsters but this list salutes ... prog version of a Monkees song (“I’m A Believer”).
Sure, the idea of men playing music together has been around forever, but the 1960s saw a shift from boys … Continue reading ...
Bottom line: “Desperado” is one of the Eagles’ most well-known tunes, so much so that it’s made Rolling Stone’s “500 Greatest Songs of All Time” list. But it wasn ... written by Mike Nesmith of the ...
Outside of jazz, Roberts appeared on songs by The Monkees and The Electric Prunes ... whose playing never ceases to astonish. Topping our list of the best jazz guitarists of all time is a revered ...
Micky Dolenz is headed to Mesa with a show called Mickey Dolenz: Songs and Stories. And it makes perfect sense that the last Monkee standing would find himself gravitating toward a storyteller ...
The title of Justus was a reference to the fact that, for the first time, The Monkees wrote all the songs for one of their albums. No one was there in the studio with them, with the exception of ...
Every Friday, pop critics for The New York Times weigh in on the week’s most notable new tracks. Listen to the Playlist on ...